Los Fabulosos Cadillacs from Buenos Aires, Argentina play ska, rocksteady, … Read Full Bio ↴Los Fabulosos Cadillacs from Buenos Aires, Argentina play ska, rocksteady, reggae, rock, jazz, salsa, folk, rap, big band. Formed 1985, their first album, Bares y Fondas came 1986. 1998 they got a Grammy for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album. They also won the MTV Latino Video Music Award in 1994 for the single 'El Matador' – which was on the soundtracks for the movies Savages, Grosse Pointe Blank and The Matador. Singer Gabriel Fernandez Capello (known as Vicentico) and bassist Flavio Cianciarulo are core members and songwriters.

The band, which collaborated with some music stars such as Debbie Harry, Mick Jones, Celia Cruz, Rubén Blades and Fishbone, received the MTV Latino Video Music Award in 1994 for the single "Matador", in what probably was the peak of popularity of the band. On September 29 of that year they produced an MTV Unplugged concert. The Cadillacs also won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album, and were nominated in the 2000 Latin Grammy Awards for Best Band and Best Music Video ("La Vida"), which received the now-defunct International Viewer's Choice Award (Southern Region) at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.

Cartas Flores Y Un Puñal
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Lyrics

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Que es lo que pasa con este bar
que nadie atiende quiero brindar
que es lo que pasa que ya no estás
es que en la vida me va bastante mal

hare tiempo
que dejamos de vernos
por cierto estuve bastante enfermo

un buen día mejoré
decidí irte a buscar
me encontré con una carta
flores why un puñal
lo que no entiendo
es como pudo pasar
si vos creías en aquello
de que todo iba a cambiar

Pero te fuiste, te fuiste mal
ayer amabas why hoy te suicidas
por eso atiéndeme por favor
tengo ganas de brindar
me siento como un barco
hundiéndome en el mar
un golpe menos un golpe más
como dijo la canción:

A esta altura me da igual.

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs's song "Cartas Flores Y Un Puñal" depict a situation where the singer visits a bar to celebrate something, but nobody attends to him. He wonders what is going on and realizes that his life is going quite bad. He hasn't seen his loved one for a long time and then he discovered a letter, flowers, and a dagger. The singer is shocked because he believed that they were going to change and improve their relationship, but now he realizes that she committed suicide. He asks for attention, but he feels like a sinking ship in the sea, and he is beyond caring.

The song is a plea for attention and a lament for the precariousness of life, relationships, and mental health. It portrays how one can go from feeling happy and optimistic to depressed and suicidal quite easily. The use of the dagger as a metaphor for the fatal wound that ends one's life is particularly poignant.

Line by Line Meaning

Que es lo que pasa con este bar
What's happening with this bar, nobody's attending, I want to have a drink.

que nadie atiende quiero brindar
Nobody's paying attention; I want to toast to something!

que es lo que pasa que ya no estás
Why aren't you here anymore? It's not like my life's going great without you.

es que en la vida me va bastante mal
Honestly, things aren't going too well for me without you around.

hare tiempo
It's been a while.

que dejamos de vernos
We haven't seen each other in a while.

por cierto estuve bastante enfermo
By the way, I was quite sick.

un buen día mejoré
But, fortunately, I eventually got better.

decidí irte a buscar
I decided to look for you.

me encontré con una carta
I found a letter.

flores why un puñal
And flowers and a knife.